Re: Field / Column Name Case

[Rob <rob.couch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Charles.

I am sure that this information is hidden in the cryptic documentation I 
have been reading from IBM.

On 12/23/2015 07:33 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
> If you want case sensitive columns names, then when creating teh table they
> have to be quoted
>
> create table mytbl (
>    "MyColumn" char(25)
> );
>
> select mycolumn from mytbl;
> Column or global variable MYCOLUMN not found.
>
> select "MyColumn" from mytbl;
> SELECT statement run complete.
>
> Oracle works the same way.  Not surprising; given that this follows the SQL
> standards...
> http://www.alberton.info/dbms_identifiers_and_case_sensitivity.html
>
>
> Charles
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Rob <rob.couch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > My script creates the tables using Upper And Lower Case letters.
> >
> > I can run sql queries using any case.
> >
> > Why can the all powerful DB2 not return the field names as I created them
> > in the result set?
> >
> > All Caps is for dead head screamers.  This is a new age of computing... we
> > have a SHIFT key!
> >
> > Took me a few minutes to figure out why I was not getting any data out of
> > a specific field.  I used fetch_assoc and $aRow[ 'Name' ] rather than
> > $aRow[ 'NAME' ] .
> >
> > I thought that 'i5_naming' => DB2_I5_NAMING_OFF was supposed to turn that
> > off.
> >
> > This is probably just a rant with no solution.
> >
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